Design
Our clients frequently ask us for design work. Most of the lighting design projects were works developed for our works. These were special situations that required a customized design. Furniture design work corresponds to two types of creations: custom-made furniture and new lines of furniture. Product design projects concern design creations with a more specific use.
Types of Design works
Furniture design
The Utopia studio's furniture design portfolio incorporates the pieces we design for various furniture companies and various projects. In all furniture design works we introduce our environmental concerns, functionality, Portuguese industry know-how and originality. Read more
Lighting design
The Utopia studio's lighting design portfolio encompasses all the lamps we design for companies or to illuminate other projects we develop. In reality, these pieces show how much we value light and how we shape spaces with lighting design. Read more
Product design
Utopia's product design portfolio encompasses the design work we carry out for specific problems posed by companies and entities from various sectors that needed an answer that only design could offer. Read more
Frequently Asked Questions about our design portfolio
Check here the most common questions about our design work.
In principle, the architect thinks about lighting for a space and not something isolated. In other words, the architect thinks about localized lighting with a lamp on the ground next to a tree, punctuating the corners of buildings, on the steps of stairs, etc. In short, the architect thinks where necessary and always without excess.
Product design encompasses all products produced industrially or by hand. Basically, it’s about giving form and material to a function. In short, it's solving a problem in a beautiful way.
The engineer mainly carries out a lighting technical study. In other words, it calculates the amount of lighting for each location. In short, it allows us to choose the most suitable lamp power.
Yes, we mostly develop furniture design for the wood and furniture industry. However, we have already developed furniture to match high-end hotels and residential projects.
First of all, the designer thinks of lighting as an object that illuminates. That is, he thinks of something that has a way of being applied, of functioning and of producing a certain light.